Benjamin Farkas, PA
Physician Assistant · Baltimore, MDNPI 1346343647
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 463 payments — averaging $15.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Novartis$1K
- AbbVie$946
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$586
- Journey Medical Corporation$498
- UCB, Inc.$440
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,12788%
- Education$85012%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 84 | $1,237 |
| Novartis | 87 | $1,078 |
| AbbVie | 114 | $946 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 28 | $586 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 11 | $498 |
| UCB, Inc. | 19 | $440 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 16 | $292 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 17 | $286 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $239 |
| Incyte Corporation | 15 | $221 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $182 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $172 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $130 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $96 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Almirall LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Amgen | 3 | $57 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 2 | $51 |
| Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| LNHC, Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $21 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
| Organon | 2 | $6 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$6,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,567 physician assistant providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 111 | $5,676 |
| Doxycycline Ir-DrDoxycycline Monohydrate | 11 | $5,288 |
| Fluorouracil | 56 | $3,456 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 151 | $1,668 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 44 | $1,664 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 68 | $1,294 |
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 29 | $1,172 |
| Ketoconazole | 96 | $1,143 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 35 | $981 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $546 |
| Fluocinonide | 18 | $461 |
| Mupirocin | 60 | $389 |
| Ciclopirox | 17 | $237 |
| Hydrocortisone | 36 | $216 |
| Clindamycin Phos-Benzoyl PeroxClindamycin Phos/Benzoyl Perox | 11 | $121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Baltimore
- Kara CossisBaltimore$177K
- Melissa BearekmanBaltimore$81K
- Bruce SmithBaltimore$63K
- Shannon MarriottBaltimore$38K
- Praveena GadamBaltimore$24K
- James ShafferBaltimore$12K
- Joyce FreidlyBaltimore$10K
- Maria RosenbergBaltimore$10K
- Thomas PetryBaltimore$10K
- Margaret JoyceTowson$220K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.